Unusual salinity conditions in the Yangtze Estuary in 2006: Impacts of an extreme drought or of the three gorges dam?

Ambio

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 496-505

  Dai, Zhijun ^a   Chu, Ao ^b   Stive, Marcel ^b   Zhang, Xiaoling ^a   Yan, Hong ^b  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Extreme drought; Salinity variation; Saltwater intrusion; TGD; Water consumption; Yangtze Estuary

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE; DROUGHT; ESTUARINE CHEMISTRY; EXTREME EVENT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; IMPOUNDMENT; SALINE INTRUSION; SALINITY; WATER USE;

ARTICLE; CHINA; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RIVER; SALINITY;

CHINA; DROUGHTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RIVERS; SALINITY;

CHINA; HUBEI; THREE GORGES DAM; YANGTZE ESTUARY;

EID: 79959792951     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-011-0148-2     Document Type: Article

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